California Art Club 115th Gold Medal Exhibition
The Annual Gold Medal Exhibition is the most vital platform for demonstrating the best of the realist genre. While participating artists employ time-honored fine art techniques, their featured works in this un-themed exhibition seek to innovate with modern messages that address societal issues from diversity to the environment.
Featured painting: A Fall Afternoon, Concord Massachusetts
Oil on canvas, 30” x 24”
Received the Gold Medal for Best Landscape (awarded at The Hilbert Museum
on August 1, 2026)
“The beauty of this fall afternoon is accentuated by its historical significance.
Of this place, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote,
"here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world".
Exhibition Dates
June 14 to September 13, 2026
Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University
167 N. Atchison Street, Orange, California 92866